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Defend Truth

Steven Robins

Professor Steven Robins is with the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Stellenbosch.

Latest Work

Steven Robins

4 November 2025

Beyond Zionism – will an alternative Judaism replace violent, illiberal Kahanism?

By Steven Robins

7 min

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Steven Robins

27 August 2025

Balancing social justice and the ‘Rights of Nature’ in the shadow of Table Mountain

By Steven Robins

5 min

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Steven Robins

3 June 2025

Chief Rabbi Goldstein abuses legal and religious concepts in attack on Ramaphosa

By Steven Robins

5 min

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‘Rights of Nature’: A fundamental challenge to the world as we know it

Environment crisis OP-ED

6 January 2022

‘Rights of Nature’: A fundamental challenge to the world as we know it

By Steven Robins

8 min

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How organic farmer Nazeer Sonday became an accidental warrior for land reform and ecological justice

OUR BURNING PLANET OP-ED

22 February 2021

How organic farmer Nazeer Sonday became an accidental warrior for land reform and ecological justice

By Steven Robins

8 min

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$River Club: Utopian fantasies of a high-tech concrete jungle in a city of broken infrastructures and fractured communities$

UNSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OP-ED

22 November 2021

River Club: Utopian fantasies of a high-tech concrete jungle in a city of broken infrastructures and fractured communities

By Steven Robins

6 min

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Lwazi Lushaba and his Hitler analogy: The cul-de-sacs and conundrums of ‘competitive memory’

15 April 2021

Lwazi Lushaba and his Hitler analogy: The cul-de-sacs and conundrums of ‘competitive memory’

By Steven Robins

8 min

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Reclaiming the city and building an urban common in Woodstock

MAVERICK CITIZEN OP-ED

6 January 2021

Reclaiming the city and building an urban common in Woodstock

By Steven Robins

7 min

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Amazon in Africa: A walk through history in the Two Rivers Urban Park

16 December 2020

Amazon in Africa: A walk through history in the Two Rivers Urban Park

By Steven Robins

6 min

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Now we are all Swedes: Covid-19, eugenics and sacrificing the ‘older older’

COVID-19: OP-ED

10 June 2020

Now we are all Swedes: Covid-19, eugenics and sacrificing the ‘older older’

By Steven Robins

11 min

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Is the lockdown authoritarian creep or ‘proportionate response’?

CORONAVIRUS OP-ED

Is the lockdown authoritarian creep or ‘proportionate response’?

By Steven Robins

7 min

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Beyond the emergency: ‘Slow catastrophes’ after Covid-19

CORONAVIRUS OP-ED

20 April 2020

Beyond the emergency: ‘Slow catastrophes’ after Covid-19

By Steven Robins

7 min

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